ISO/IEC 29794-1:2016, for any or all biometric sample types as necessary, establishes the following:- terms and definitions that are useful in the specification and use of quality metrics;- purpose and interpretation of biometric quality scores;- encoding of quality data fields in biometric data interchange formats;- methods for developing biometric sample datasets for the purpose of quality score normalisation;- format for exchange of quality algorithm results;- methods for aggregation of quality scores.The following are outside the scope of ISO/IEC 29794-1:2016:- specification of minimum requirements for sample, module, or system quality scores;- performance assessment of quality algorithms;- standardization of quality algorithms.